The Rroma camp in Laeken – 50 people or so – is going to be dismantled. Belgium seems to follow the French model.
A summary of the aggression against the young Rrom in Bulgaria who stated “you are my equal” to an obviously racist and brutal Bulgarian.
Two article on a festival last week end in Western France.
A polemic started in France because of a planned moive by a French humourist – Christian Clavier – called “Sivouplééé” – a play on the French “please” as pronounced by Romanian Rroma beggars. This movie shows a leftist intellectual who has to open his home to a family of Rroma. And of course, all stereotypes are present.
Toni Gatlif, the French Rroma movie maker simply finds this disgusting, and we share his point of view.
SHAME !!!
And the spring comes, and camps are dismantled or at least threatened … The French constant. In Ris Orangis, near Paris, a camp was dismantled; in Annet sur Marne, the tribunal will decide on May 6th about the camp, a camp which has neighbours up in arms; in Lyon, a new camp in the city; in the North, Rroma are being displaced to a new location in Vauban amidst opposition; and near Paris, a commune searches for a solution for sedentarised travellers.
Meanwhile, former residents of a camp in Paris are looking for a new address; and mayors in several cities in France are really increasing their racist rhetoric. Finally, a Bulgarian death in a camp lands in front of the justice – with the usual background of “human trafficking”.
A series of conferences on the “remembrance” focuses on the persecution of Rroma and Sinti in Nazi Germany.
Let us not forget.
An article about the politic of exclusion that is the norm in France.
The Rroma families who occupied a church in Hamburg (see earlier reports) 6 month ago to protest their upcoming expulsion out of the country will be deported after all.
Bad!
Never forget!
Professor Wilhelm Solms is awarded the German Federal Order of Merit for his work on the Antiziganismus and his engagement in this cause.
Congratulations!
The Council of Europe announced the creation of a European Rroma Institute to promote and defend the Rroma cultural heritage.
Let’s hope!
An Exhibition – Rroma on the Way to School – opened its doors in Strasbourg.
A new permanent exhibition near Buchenwald has opened. A must see. Let’s not forget.
Anina Ciuciu, a young Rromni passed from a camp in Italy to the French university of La Sorbonne in Paris where she studies law. A portrait.
A few articles on a Rroma camp in Laaken in Belgium. All this for 50 people …
71 years ago to this day, the concentration camps of Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen were freed. May those who did not survive rest in peace.
A long article on Rroma beggars in Sweden. Numbers of beggars vary according to sources but range from 600 t0 4’000. Unfortunately, the article propagates stereotypes about Rroma….
Just a few selected statements from the French Prime Minister.
SHAME!
This week’s chronicle is dominated by a few places. First and foremost, Cogolin, in the South where a Front National Mayor commented the destruction on a Rroma camp live on TV – watch it, in case you doubt what this party stands for. The statements he made (about the odour etc.) are actually plain racist.
Then, near Paris, in Annet sur Marne, a camp’s fate is in the hand of the judges; in Saint-Ouen, near Paris, the mayor blocks a street to get rid of Rroma; in Lille, Rroma may be forced to leave while in Roubaix, garbage strewn on the street creates anger.
Then an article about a strategy about Rroma … One wonders, So much noise and work for less than 20’000 Rroma – the problem could have been resolved a long while back.
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